The White Falcon - 14.09.1963, Side 3

Saturday, September 14, 1963
WHITE FALCON
3
A MOMENT OF PRIDE is experienced by these three sailors, as
Commander Robert Boe, Executive Officer of the Naval Station, re-
enlists them into the United States Navy. They are: (1-r) S. E. Wiltze,
HM2, D. E. Merkle, PCI, and J. D. Juarez, YN2.
Bond Buying Americans
Seek E and H Series
The U.S. Treasury Department has reported that Ameri-
cans own more than $46.5 billion in Series E and H Savings
Bonds—all of which are earning interest.
The figure sets an all-time high for American investment
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RFE Brings Truth and Hope
To 80 Million Captive People
in government bonds.
The original Series E bonds
were issued in 1941. Although
they were intended to expire in
10 years, their expiration date
has been extended to 1970 and
they continue to earn 33A percent
interest. Those issued from June
1, 1949 to April 1, 1957, may be
held up to 10 years after matur-
ity.
A Series E bond, purchased in
1941, would be worth double its
purchase price today. The E
bonds now mature in 7 yrs. 9
mos. with interest accumulating
every 6 months. Bonds issued May
1, 1957, and thereafter, also have
an extension privilege.
Series H bonds mature 10 years
from the date of issue. Current
income from the bonds is paid
by semi-annual interest check.
The yield increases the longer the
bond is held. A bond held to
maturity averages 3 3A percent in-
terest annually.
These bonds are redeemable
after six months from purchase.
The seller must, however, give
one month’s written notice of
intention to sell.
Series H bonds issued between
June, 1952, and January, 1957,
may be retained for an additional
10 years with semi-annual pay-
ments at a rate of 3 3A percent
per annum. No extension privilege
has been announced for those pur-
chased after February, 1957.
The bonds of the E Series are
the ones most military personnel
secure through payroll deductions.
U8S Thresher Fund
Established As Relief
For Crew’s Orphans
On April 10, 1963, the USS
Thresher disappeared beneath the
Atlantic Ocean. She took with her
129 navymen. The loss of the ship
and her entire crew left some-
thing afloat and adrift—the 187
orphans of the men that went
down with the ship.
A fund has been established to
provide educational assistance and
emergency relief monies to the
orphans. In the hope of being able
to raise the funds, a Navy-wide
effort is considered desirable.
Leaders of the political, business
and entertainment communities
are being asked for their assi-
stance in gaining broad public
support. Corporate gifts are also
being sought.
Your support is also desired.
The Internal Revenue Service has
declared the USS Thresher Fund
a tax-exempt charity. Contribu-
tions, requests for information,
and ideas for further promotion
should be addressed to the USS
Thresher Fund, Old Colony Trust
Co., P.O. Box 850, Boston 3, Mass.
GIVE TO
AMERICAN
OVERSEAS
CAMPAIGN
Cuba .... Berlin .... India ..
Eastern Europe .... all hot spots
in the cold war, targets for Com-
munist aggression, infiltration
and propaganda .... propaganda
designed to convert people to
Marxism and slavery. Today, the
American people through Radio
Free Europe, a member agency of
the American Overseas Campaign,
counter Communist propaganda at
the Kremlin’s front doorstep —
East Europe.
The purpose: to help 80 million
captive people resist the pressures
of Communist indoctrination.
Have the Communists succeeded
in converting the captive people
to Communism? The answer: a
resounding NO! The captive pe-
ople in East Europe have actively
resisted all attempts to fit them
into the Communist mold.
Soviet agriculture collectiviza-
tion attempts have failed.
Many Soviet expectations for
East European industrial growth
have failed.
Soviet hopes to use East Europe
and its people as a stepping stone
to further conquests have failed.
In spite of the constant barrage
of Communist propaganda, the
captive people have preserved
their religious faiths, national
heritages, and their desire for
eventual freedom from Communist
rule.
Why have the Communists fail-
ed. Surely, it is not through lack
of time, effort, money or even
skill in the manipulation of facts
and ideas. One of the main an-
swers for the Kremlin failure to
master the minds of East Euro-
peans has been the work of Radio
Free Europe.
3,000 AIR HOURS WEEKLY
Radio Free Europe has broad-
cast truth and hope of freedom
for the past 12 years. It beams
3,000 program hours every week
and is on the air both day and
night.
Beginning in December Radio
Free Europe is doubling the power
of its shortwave broadcasts to
Communist East Europe. Installa-
tion of four new transmitters will
enable RFE to broadcast signals
2/2 times more powerful than at
present over its best electrical
equipment.
This increase of power from
today’s 825,000 watts to 1,825,000
watts will help make Radio Free
Europe Stronger than ever in
overcoming Soviet jamming at-
tempts. Declared C. Rodney Smith,
director of Radio Free Europe:
“Many people will listen tenacious-
ly to RFE despite heavy jamming
and natural interference. But
there is no doubt that this strong-
er signal will increase our audi-
ence as well as the amount of
listening to our programs.”
Over 50 per cent of Radio Free
Europe’s broadcast time is devoted
to news and news analysis; the
remaining time is devoted to music
drama and religious programs.
RFE also plans broadcasts that
appeal to different segments of
its audience: teachers, profession-
al people, women, students, fann-
ers, factory and office workers.
In effect, Radio Free Europe
is the captive people’s free press
in exile. And like a free press,
it supplies national, international
and, most important, local news.
Radio Free Europe receives the
news from all major free world
wire services and from its own
news bureaus located in Washing-
ton D. C., New York and ten major
European capitals. All informa-
tion to be broadcast by RFE is
checked and double-checked for
accuracy. The captive people know
they can rely on RFE for the
plain, unvarnished truth. This re-
liance has earned RFE the posi-
tion of being the most popular
and influential free world net-
work broadcasting to East Europe.
In Today’s World Adults
Must Continue To Learn!
The typical picture of a college
education is one of daytime resi-
dent study. It is a picture of
post-high school youths living on
some distant campus away from
home for perhaps the first time,
giving full-time to college studies;
of hordes of students scurrying
through rain or shine to and
from classes, dining halls and
dormitories; of the sacrifices par-
ents are making to help their sons
and daughters preparing for ca-
reers in business and industry,
education and government and the
professions.
But another picture of college
education is fast emerging across
the land—a picture of night-time
adult part-time study. It is one
of mature men and women hur-
rying in the growing darkness
from home and office to evening
classes; of brightly lit classrooms
inhabited by businessmen and
housewives, fathers and grand-
mothers; of college professors
driving many miles to take the
classroom to the students.
Why this changing picture?
Hundreds of thousands of adults
are facing a new fact of life. In
today’s world adults must continue
to learn! Learning, like breathing,
is a necessity of life. For the first
time in history the pace of change
has accelerated to the point where
adults now live in a world dif-
ferent in kind from the one into
which they were born.
The days when a man could
make a good living through native
ingenuity and the sweat of his
brow alone are fast disappearing,
if indeed they ever really existed.
Resourcefulness and hard work
will always be necessary to attain
the productive life, but the chal-
lenges of the space age demand
more and more education as well.
Adult evening students are aware
of this truth and are doing some-
thing about it. They include those
who never had a chance or who
were unable to finish their studies.
Other adults have become aware
of another truth, that the know-
ledge acquired during the tradi-
tional years of formal education
Is no longer adequate for the rest
of their lives—if, again, it ever
was. Obsolescence has become a
major characteristic of learning.
More knowledge has been discover-
ed during the lifetime of the pre-
sent adult population than existed
at his birth. Moreover “facts”
must continually be relearned in
the light of new scientific dis-
coveries. Many adults attending
evening classes already hold one
or more degrees. They are filling
in the gaps of knowledge not pre-
viously acquired, exploring new
areas of learning, reviewing new
developments in fields with which
they are already familiar.
No one really knows how many
adults are getting a college educa-
tion through part-time evening
study, but it has been estimated
that nearly a million throughout
the country are currently enrolled
in credit courses alone. In the
State of Maryland, the number is
surely above 15,000. No longer
is a college education the exclusive
prerogative of post-high school
youth. Adults too, go to college,
and they’re doing so in ever-
increasing numbers.
How about you? How long has
it been since you attended a night
school or participated in a USAFI
Course. Two major programs open
to you at this command are the
University of Maryland Extension
Program and USAFI correspond-
ence courses. The University of
Maryland Extension Program of-
fers the same courses as those
on campus of any college and the
classes are in the evening at the
Naval Station High School. En-
rollment in this program costs
$45.00 plus the cost of books, but,
through tution aid, the govern-
ment will pay $33.75 of this and
you will only pay $11.25 plus the
cost of books. The United States
Armed Forces Institute (USAFI)
offers a large variety of corres-
pondence courses available to mili-
tary personnel at an enrollment
fee of $5.00. If the first course
is completed satisfactorily, you
may continue taking as many as
two courses at a time at no addi-
tional fee as long as you succes-
fully complete all courses in suc-
cession. Consult your I&E Office
■for full information.
BRITISH BOMBSHELL —English
film star Diana Dors stikes a
sultry pose for White Falcon read-
ers.
■Quote of the Week-
'‘It will be a better day for our
country when the military man is rec-
ognized for what he truly is—an in-
surer of peace . . —Secretary of
the Air Force Eugene M- Zuckert at
the Reserve Officers Association con-
vention in Miami.